2023 Most Focused Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Missouri

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Visual & Performing Arts is the 221st most popular major in the country with 3,130 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Missouri, there were 69 visual and performing arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in visual and performing arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in visual and performing arts.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri”.

Top 3 Most Focused Colleges for Visual & Performing Arts in Missouri

1

Southeast Missouri State University
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

#23 overall quality in Missouri

$35,626 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,006 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southeast Missouri State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri. Cape Girardeau, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s visual arts degrees to 52 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Visual & Performing Arts at Southeast Missouri State University

2

State Fair Community College
Sedalia, Missouri

$41,167 Average Early-Career Earnings

$18,375 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, State Fair Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Sedalia, Missouri, and it awarded 8 ’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Visual & Performing Arts at State Fair Community College

3

Missouri State University - Springfield
Springfield, Missouri

#9 overall quality in Missouri

$40,472 Average Early-Career Earnings

$24,800 Average Student Debt

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Visual Arts Major in Missouri that were part of this year’s ranking, Missouri State University - Springfield landed the #3 spot on the list. This large school is located in Springfield, Missouri, and it awarded 9 ’s visual arts degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Missouri State University - Springfield Visual & Performing Arts Report

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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